The Winter tournament standings after 16 weeks.
With some 26 registered players playing 92 games of slow chess over 16 weeks. What is the standings for our Winter Tournament.
I love the idea of sitting infront of a chess board and focusing for some 3 hours on pure chess positions, planning, attacking, defending, making the best of a weak move, trying to win from an advantage and seeing it disappear and being swallowed in a loss and then those brilliant wins....... What a fantastic game.
Thanks to all the players for supporting this tournament.
I have split the group using UCU ratings.
Leading the top section with only 1 defeat is Danny Roberts. with a fantastic 85.7%. Closely followed by Mark Newman on 85%.
Danny Roberts is a close second
| Rating | Name | lichess user | Score | Played | % | |
| 1 | 1706 | Damien Lavery | Kentuckian | 2 | 2 | 100.00 |
| 2 | 1812 | Danny Roberts | DannyRoberts1 | 12 | 14 | 85.71 |
| 3 | 1642 | Mark Newman | ishi100 | 8.5 | 10 | 85.00 |
| 4 | 1900 | Steve Scannell | lastoutpost | 1 | 2 | 50.00 |
| 5 | 1801 | Alex Goss | Kek2000 | 7 | 14 | 50.00 |
| 6 | 1614 | Michael Sheerin | RDWRER | 0.5 | 1 | 50.00 |
| 7 | 1534 | Chris Kelly | chriskelly | 3.5 | 8 | 43.75 |
| 8 | 1645 | Robert Lavery | Yreval | 2 | 8 | 25.00 |
| 9 | 1712 | Ernie Crozier | Sandyhill | 0.5 | 4 | 12.50 |
| 10 | 1581 | James O'fee | JamesOFee | 0 | 2 | 0.00 |
The Middle section is led by Adrian Dornford-Smith on 61.54% closely followed by Chris Armstrong on 56.25%. Chris has had some tough draws playing up some 4 times and holding the only win against Danny Roberts.
| 1 | 1209 | James Wong | messagemetosayhi | 1 | 1 | 100.00 |
| 2 | 1259 | Adrian Dornford-Smith | Dornford | 8 | 13 | 61.54 |
| 2 | 1377 | Chris Armstrong | pcmorphy | 9 | 16 | 56.25 |
| 3 | 1200 | Joseph Gunning | Josephgun | 8 | 15 | 53.33 |
| 4 | 1400 | john Sweeney | Johnsweeney | 3.5 | 8 | 43.75 |
| 5 | 1139 | Gary Johnston | bluethecat | 2.5 | 12 | 20.83 |
| 6 | 1245 | Chris Dorrian | faunorcival | 1 | 5 | 20.00 |
The lower section has a clear leader who is really beating everyone. Michael Hood on 70.83% has knocked points off players in all the sections. Drawing against Robert Lavery and Chris Kelly. Hes a very formidable opponent. David Corr holds second place and again his score hides some excellent results.
| 1 | 961 | Michael Hood | michaelhood | 8.5 | 12 | 70.83 |
| 2 | 1000 | David Corr | MrScrumps | 8.5 | 16 | 53.13 |
| 1 | 1053 | Kyle Milligan | pinallwizard | 2 | 4 | 50.00 |
| 2 | 1000 | Calum Glendinning | CalumGlendinning2005 | 1 | 2 | 50.00 |
| 3 | 895 | Paul Anderson | Number_8 | 3 | 7 | 42.86 |
| 4 | 827 | Geoff Sterrett | GeoffSterrett | 0 | 2 | 0.00 |
| 5 | 640 | George Gamble | ChessGeorge13 | 0 | 6 | 0.00 |
